Russia. A History

C. Gaudin, Ruling Peasants: Village and State in Late Imperial Russia (DeKalb, Ill., 2007), interesting exploration of peasant responses to ever more intrusive state from the 1880s.

M. F. Hamm (ed.), The City in Late Imperial Russia (Bloomington, Ind., 1986), case studies of several leading cities.

J. F. Hutchinson, Politics and Public Health in Revolutionary Russia, 1890–1913 (Baltimore, MD, 1990), study of medical profession and its response to issues of public health and politics.

D. C. B. Lieven, Russia and the Origins of the First World War (New York, 1983), on domestic causes of Russian entry into war.

———Russia’s Rulers under the Old Regime (New Haven, CT, 1989), prosopographical and biographical study of State Council.

R. T. Manning, The Crisis of the Old Order in Russia (Princeton, NJ, 1982), on shift of gentry from opposition to a conservative defence of old order.

S. Morrissey, Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia (Cambridge, 2006), examines the discourse on suicide to explore issues like selfhood and institutional conflict and power.

L. McReynolds, The News under Russia’s Old Régime (Princeton, NJ, 1991), on the development of a mass circulation press.

J. Neuberger, Hooliganism (Berkeley, CA, 1993), on youth and crime in St Petersburg.

J. Pallot, Land Reform in Russia, 1906–1917 (Oxford, 1999), critical account of the Stolypin reforms from the perspective of peasant responses.

A. J. Rieber, Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia

(Chapel Hill, NC, 1982), sophisticated account of merchant-industrial élites in post-reform era.

R. G. Robbins, The Tsar’s Viceroys (Ithaca, NY, 1987), on profile and role of governors at end of old regime.

H. Rogger, Jewish Policies and Right-Wing Politics in Imperial Russia (Berkeley, CA, 1986), an important series of essays on the complexities of state policy and politics.

J. A. Sharp, Russian Modernism between East and West: Natalia Goncharova and the Moscow Avant-Garde (New York, 2006), on the creativity and achievements of Goncharov and Russian modernism before the outbreak of war.

V. Shevzov, Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of Revolution (New York, 2004), study of lay piety in late Imperial Russia.

J. Smele and A. Heywood (eds.), The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives (London, 2005), essays reflecting recent scholarship and especially valuable for the attention to the provinces and periphery.

E. C. Thaden (ed.), Russification in the Baltic Provinces and Finland, 1855–1914 (Princeton, NJ, 1981), valuable collection of essays on post-reform minority policy.

A. M. Verner, The Crisis of Autocracy (Princeton, NJ, 1990), close analysis of the emperor and bureaucratic élite responses to the challenges of revolution.

T. H. Von Laue, Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia (New York, 1963), classic account of Witte and his industrialization policies.

N. B. Weissman, Reform in Tsarist Russia (New Brunswick, NJ, 1981), on the problem of rebuilding a more effective system of local government.

A. L. Wildman, The Making of a Workers’ Revolution: Russian Social Democracy, 1891–1903 (Chicago, IL, 1967), on the relations between Marxist intellectuals and politicized workers.

R. E. Zelnik (ed.), Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections

(Berkeley, CA, 1999), valuable essays on worker-intelligentsia relations in the pre-revolution.

III. SOVIET HISTORY AND BEYOND

8. GENERAL HISTORIES AND MONOGRAPHS

K. E. Bailes, Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin (Princeton, NJ, 1978), path-breaking study of the Soviet technical intelligentsia.

J. S. Curtiss, The Russian Church and the Soviet State, 1917–50 (New York, 1953), balanced treatment of Soviet religious policies.